Letter from Lynda | Happy Valentine’s Day, and welcome to our February 2012 newsletter. This month we’re proud to launch our new queue feature, which will make it easier for you to save and organize courses. Check out our coverage of the star-studded Santa Barbara International Film Festival, such as the screenwriters and directors panels. Take advantage of opportunities to test out new Photoshop Lightroom software, attend a print conference, and make yourself invaluable in your chosen field. | New feature: queue  lynda.com author Garrick Chow demonstrates the queue. Build a list of courses that interest you with our new queue feature. Use the + button beside each course name to add the course to your queue. Then prioritize courses within the queue, which you can access from the home page or from the My courses menu at the top of each page. Watch our demonstration video to see how it works, and visit our blog for tips on navigating the queue and to post a comment with your feedback on the new feature. | | | | | Stay up to date with access to the Online Training Library®! We are constantly adding new software training courses and inspirational documentaries to help you reach your creative and career goals. 
| | | | New product: lyndaEnterprise We’ve launched another product that provides lynda.com training to all employees within an organization. lyndaEnterprise offers unlimited, company-wide access to all lynda.com courses, plus usage reports to track viewership. It’s a smart resource for sales teams, marketing, creative, web development, human resources, and IT, with easy setup and management. If you know a business that would benefit from lynda.com, see what lyndaEnterprise offers. | Celebrity panels at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival  We attended the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) and shot footage of the event’s popular panel discussions by movie-biz movers and shakers. Carefully situated in the middle of Hollywood’s awards season, the festival draws Golden Globe winners and Academy Award nominees to its industry panels about directing, screenwriting, and producing the year’s top films. This year’s guests included The Help writer and director Tate Taylor and The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius. Watch the panels now on lynda.com: It Starts with the Script and 2012 SBIFF Women’s Panel - Women in the Biz, Directors on Directing, and the producers panel, Movers and Shakers.
| New series on becoming professionally invaluable  We’re excited to kick off a five-part professional development series designed to help you cultivate the traits of an invaluable professional. In the first of five installments, Invaluable: Unlocking Your Abilities, business coach Dave Crenshaw focuses on creating an action plan to harness your natural talents, match your job responsibilities to those talents, and assess your performance. The second installment, Developing Your Business Savvy, explains how understanding your company, your role, and the future of your industry will enhance your value as an employee and advance your career. Watch for more Invaluable installments in the coming months.
| Test-drive Photoshop Lightroom 4 beta  The latest version of Adobe Photoshop photo-editing software, Lightroom, is available for free public beta testing. You can download it, try it out, and provide feedback that may influence the final version. Get up to speed on the new features with veteran lynda.com author and photographer Chris Orwig’s two-hour course, Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Preview. We’ve made the entire course available to both members and nonmembers, so tell your friends they can test-drive both Lightroom and lynda.com at the same time.
| Create captivating infographics  This month, we’ve published three new courses on designing compelling infographics with Shane Snow. Presenting data and relationships visually has become a vital way to communicate on the web, and this series provides advice and inspiration to get you started. Establish a solid foundation with Infographics: Planning and Wireframing, which covers the first steps in creating infographics—organizing sample data and preparing a basic wireframe in Photoshop. Infographics: Visualizing Relationships shows how to depict complex relationships with easy-to-understand graphics. And find out how to create circular representations of your data with Infographics: Area Bubbles.
| Print + ePublishing Conference offers lynda.com discount  lynda.com InDesign authors Anne-Marie Concepcion and David Blatner are offering a discount to lynda.com friends who attend their annual Print + ePublishing Conference (PePcon) in San Francisco, May 14 through 16. PePcon 2012 features top-tier teachers and members of the InDesign team from Adobe. Get the most up-to-date information for publishing print, ebooks, and interactive documents, and to connect with speakers and other enthusiastic attendees. Enter the code LYNDA when registering and get $35 off admission. If you can’t wait until May, two of this year’s PePcon speakers have just released courses on lynda.com. In InDesign Tables in Depth, Diane Burns offers advice for working smoothly with tables and putting them to use in unexpected ways. Publishing industry veteran Mike Rankin has authored a new course on Creating Long Documents with InDesign, in which he shows designers how to create book-length documents.
| Share your love of learning: Give a gift membership for Valentine’s Day  It’s not too late to treat those you love to a lynda.com gift membership that lets them learn to their hearts’ content. With membership levels to suit every learner, from basic Monthly to Annual Premium options, a lynda.com membership fills the heart, feeds the head—and is delivered instantly. Need help feeling the love? Watch artist Marian Bantjes create her signature valentines as part of the lynda.com Creative Inspirations documentary series. “Everything I do,” Bantjes says, “I do for love.”
| | Happy Valentine’s Day—and happy learning!
—Lynda | |
 Keep an eye on the site for these and many other helpful new courses coming to the Online Training Library® soon: - Capture NX2 Essential Training
- Access 2007: Forms and Reports in Depth
- Access 2010: Forms and Reports in Depth
- iOS SDK Essential Training
- iPhone Photography, from Shooting to Storytelling
- Photoshop Elements 10 Essential Training
- Acrobat X: Creating Forms
- Designing a House in Revit Architecture
- Painter 12 Essential Training MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications
- Dreamweaver and WordPress: Building Mobile Sites
- Dreamweaver and WordPress: Building Sites
- Dreamweaver and WordPress: Building Themes
- Facebook Essential Training
- WebEx Essential Training
- V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max Essential Training
- V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Essential Training
- Managing a Hosted Web Site
- Unit Testing iOS Applications with Xcode 4
- Up and Running with Tumblr
- Character Rigging in Maya
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—Mike J.
Read more great feedback. | Tip of the month |  Presenter view lets you see your notes onscreen, but hides them from the audience. | | Using Presenter view from PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Business Presentations When making a presentation to an audience, you often position your laptop so that it’s facing you. This allows you to see the current slide without turning your back to the audience. With the PowerPoint Presenter view, you can enhance your laptop display without affecting what the audience sees. To switch to Presenter view, switch to the Slide Show tab on the ribbon. Then check the Use Presenter View box. Note that if PowerPoint sends the Presenter view to the wrong display, you can make the change in the Show On menu. Press F5 to start the slideshow, now with Presenter view enabled. Now, in the left window, you can see what the audience sees. This is the same signal that’s sent to their display: the projector or LCD screen. Below the slides, you get a clock and a timer showing the elapsed time since you began the presentation. In the bottom row, you see thumbnails of all your slides. Click any of them to jump directly to that slide. You can also use the wheel on your mouse to quickly scroll through your slides. On the right side of the screen, your personal speaker notes are displayed. These are notes you can see, but the audience cannot. Use the Zoom buttons below the notes to make the text larger or smaller. All of the keyboards shortcuts that work in the regular presentation mode also work in Presenter mode. You can also enable the Pen and Highlighter features; the audience will see anything you draw on the slides on your screen. Clicking on the menu icon gives you the same menu that you’d see by right-clicking in the regular presentation view. Presenter view gives you the tools to deliver your presentation with confidence, and without your audience knowing that you’re using notes. View sample movies from PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Business Presentations. | |
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